Being a Band
I have wanted to be in a band ever since I heard The Clash and U2. I have wanted to play bass in a band ever since I heard that throb from John Entwistle (R.I.P.) in “The Kids Are Alright” right when Roger Daltry sings “But I know sometimes I.” Right on that second “I.” Just this past Friday, I’ve joined a new band. No name yet, but we’ve already got a great dirty sound. Being in a band has little to nothing to do with being a good musician or...
Read MoreA Ghost Story
After the sleazy hotel in Jersey, after moving to the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania the summer before my senior year in high school (thanks, mom and dad), after a senior year in a redneck high school in which I spent every other day in the principal’s office, there was the haunted farmhouse. It was the summer before I was leaving for college (and in my mind, never fucking coming back). My parents found an old farmhouse on a large plot of land (including half a mountain). It was...
Read MoreBecause the world needs another blog. . .
this one is now up. Thanks for stopping by. I already keep a two-sentence-per-entry blog on myspace, but I plan to write a less-frequent, more-impactful blog here.
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Ed Lin is the author of Waylaid, This Is A Bust, Snakes Can't Run, and One Red Bastard. Lin, who is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. Ed lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung.